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10. Simbi FW – RWanda Espresso

Ceylon Tea, Green Apple, Red Currant

This Rwandan coffee has a complex flavour profile, with fruity notes of green apple and red currants joining a delicate sweetness that reminds us of Ceylon tea.

Cultivation

Grown with love by great farmers. 100% arabica coffee, picked when it's ripe, processed with care, and fairly traded.

Packaging

The tins in our advent calendar hold 50g of coffee and are free from mixed materials, making them 100% recyclable.

Brewing
Take your tried-and-tested recipe as a starting point for this roast, or get help from our brew guides.

Scoring Card
The coffee cherry can develop up to 1,200 different natural flavours. Depending on location and variety. Learn to understand the flavours in coffee with the Scoring Card. Grade your coffee by filling out your Scoring Card.

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Simbi Washingsstation Überblick auf Tal

About the Coffee

Ceylon Tea, Green Apple, Red Currant

Score: 88.5
Sweetness: 4/5 Ceylon Tea
Acidity: 3/5 Rhubarb
Mouthfeel: 3/5 Balanced
Body: 3/5 Balanced and Clean

Variety: Red Bourbon
Processing: Natural
Harvesting Year: 2022
Drying Time: 12-21 days


Suggested brew recipe:
1:2.5 (eg 19g coffee to 47.5g espresso) in 30-35 seconds

About this coffee

This Red Bourbon from Rwanda was naturally processed, whereby the whole cherries are dried straight after harvesting, fruit, skin and all. This allows the beans to absorb some of the berry-like sweetness from the fruit, intensifying a developing the flavour profile into something more complex.

Map Rwanda

The farm | Simbi Washing Station

The Simbi Washing Station was founded in 2013 by Abdul Rudahunga. Located in the Huye region in the south of Rwanda near the border with Burundi, nearly 1500 small holders deliver their harvests to the Simbi Station for processing, where around 80 staff are employed during the main harvest season. The station uses several different processing methods, which gives them a capacity of around 300 tonnes, in everything from fully washed to sun-dried naturals. This experimenting approach, combined with a sharp attention to details means Simbi is producing some of the highest-quality coffees in Rwanda.

Relationship: Several Years
Producer: Abdul Rudahunga
Type of farm: Washing Station

Region, Country: Huye, Rwanda
Altitude: 1850 masl
Soil type: Fertile Soils
Fertilisation method: organic
Shade type: Shade grown
Processing location: Simbi Washing Station
Number of varieties: Various
Harvest season: March - June


Cup of Excellence

About the farm

The Simbi Washing Station was founded in 2013 by Abdul Rudahunga. Located in the Huye region in the south of Rwanda near the border with Burundi, nearly 1500 small holders deliver their harvests to the Simbi Station for processing, where around 80 staff are employed during the main harvest season. The station uses several different processing methods, which gives them a capacity of around 300 tonnes, in everything from fully washed to sun-dried naturals. This experimenting approach, combined with a sharp attention to details means Simbi is producing some of the highest-quality coffees in Rwanda.
Espresso läuft durch Siebträger in 19grams Tasse

Bloody Good Espresso

Coffee is a fruit which is naturally acidic and contains many sugars. We roast our espresso to develop a fine acidity and to bring out its natural sweetness.

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